I was thinking more of the Apple approach to branding and
presentation, rather than the messy internals underneath. Their view
seems to be very much that there's a consistent approach to the
experience of using their kit (it just works), rather than, say, the
linux cloud of functionality.

S.

On 10 Apr 2006, at 10:18, Martin Fowler wrote:
>> I'm writing this on a Mac, very much a modernist
>> machine (OK, maybe that's not the best example :).
>
> Interesting in a talk James Noble took a different perspective. He
> contrasted the Kay dream of a dynabook running everything off the
> Modernist Smalltalk to the reality of the PowerBook running on
> decidedly
> post-modern Unix.